With a sound like a bat hitting a watermelon, pirate fist connected with pirate jaw and a gold tooth bounced across the deck.

This is what I like about life at sea. It’s one long voyage of discovery. Solid water! What will they think of next? Hopefully a pony who solves crimes.

You don't know what it is to live and laugh and love and run a man through! You've never tasted salty air on your tongue or waved heartily at a mermaid!

That explains a lot,' he said. 'I suppose it's also why we've never glimpsed that giant compass in the corner of the Atlantic. I have to say, I'm a little disappointed.

I would like to tell you that I wrote my book to push back artistic boundaries. But I didn't. I wrote it to impress a girl.

That explains a lot, ' he said. 'I suppose it's also why we've never glimpsed that giant compass in the corner of the Atlantic. I have to say, I'm a little disappointed.

They both fell silent. For a while the only sound they could hear was the noise of books resting on shelves, which wasn’t really enough of a sound to distract them from the awkwardness of the moment.

God's dream is interwoven into reality by humans.

All your sufferings can be alleviated by no other person but you.

You have to learn to love yourself. How can others appreciate what you have to offer if you don’t value yourself?

I like to eat chocolate and pizza - that's my vice! - just like everyone else, but if I do it I have to keep it under control.

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?

Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you . . .

There was so much good and different music back then and you'd just keep moving through it and discovering more new stuff. I went through my Black Sabbath phase before I even started playing guitar.

If you don't have a dream in life, I don't know what you have. You have to want something beyond your reach; it's exciting when it works out.

Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.